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Maggie Anton on Jews and the First Crusade

In her last posts Maggie Anton, the author of the Rashi’s Daughters trilogy, reviewed Elie Wiesel’s Rashi and wrote on being a historical novelist.

When I first decided to write a trilogy of historical novels about Rashi’s daughters, one for each, I knew that the third book, on Rachel, would contain scenes occurring in the First Crusade. Continue reading here.